[Samba] smbclient works with IP address but not hostname

[Graeme Russ]

Hi Ashish,

It looks like I found a solution...

I noticed when I booted Windows 7 on WS1 I had the same problem and 
doing a DNS resolution resulted in an IPv6 address

So I googled 'samba turn off ipv6' and found this:

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=133188

So I changed my smb.conf accordingly and everything appears to work fine now

Regards,


Graeme

On 09/02/15 18:29, Ashish Yadav wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 12:29 PM, Graeme Russ <gruss at tss-engineering.com
> <mailto:gruss at tss-engineering.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hi Ashish,
>
>     On 09/02/15 17:50, Ashish Yadav wrote:
>
>         Hi,
>
>         On Sun, Feb 8, 2015 at 11:23 AM, Graeme Russ
>         <gruss at tss-engineering.com <mailto:gruss at tss-engineering.com>
>         <mailto:gruss at tss-engineering.__com
>         <mailto:gruss at tss-engineering.com>>> wrote:
>
>              Hi All,
>
>              I've configured a Fedora 20 server with samba to share a
>         few user
>              directories and a printer.
>
>               From a Windows 8 laptop, I am able to address the samba
>         server by
>              it's name (fs1)
>
>               From a Fedora 20 client (ws1), I am able to address the samba
>              server by IP address, but not by name.
>
>
>     [snip]
>
>
>              Any ideas where I should start looking?
>
>
>         Please post your /etc/hosts and /etc/resolv.conf .
>
>         Send the output of  "ping -c5 fs1"  command from your machine?
>
>
>     [gruss at ws1 ~]$ cat /etc/resolv.conf
>     # Generated by NetworkManager
>     domain tss-engineering.com <http://tss-engineering.com>
>     search tss-engineering.com <http://tss-engineering.com>
>     tss-engineering.com <http://tss-engineering.com>.
>     nameserver 192.168.1.1
>     nameserver fd78:beb4:a733::1
>
>     [gruss at ws1 ~]$ cat /etc/hosts
>     127.0.0.1               localhost.localdomain localhost
>     ::1             localhost6.localdomain6 localhost6
>
>     [gruss at ws1 ~]$ ping -c5 fs1
>     PING fs1.tss-engineering.com <http://fs1.tss-engineering.com>
>     (192.168.1.10) 56(84) bytes of data.
>     64 bytes from FS1.tss-engineering.com
>     <http://FS1.tss-engineering.com> (192.168.1.10): icmp_seq=1 ttl=64
>     time=0.483 ms
>     64 bytes from FS1.tss-engineering.com
>     <http://FS1.tss-engineering.com> (192.168.1.10): icmp_seq=2 ttl=64
>     time=0.435 ms
>     64 bytes from FS1.tss-engineering.com
>     <http://FS1.tss-engineering.com> (192.168.1.10): icmp_seq=3 ttl=64
>     time=0.463 ms
>     64 bytes from FS1.tss-engineering.com
>     <http://FS1.tss-engineering.com> (192.168.1.10): icmp_seq=4 ttl=64
>     time=0.447 ms
>     64 bytes from FS1.tss-engineering.com
>     <http://FS1.tss-engineering.com> (192.168.1.10): icmp_seq=5 ttl=64
>     time=0.418 ms
>
>     --- fs1.tss-engineering.com <http://fs1.tss-engineering.com> ping
>     statistics ---
>     5 packets transmitted, 5 received, 0% packet loss, time 4001ms
>     rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.418/0.449/0.483/0.026 ms
>
>
> Have you tried with any Domain Users,
>
> # smbclient  -L fs1 -U <Domain_User>
>
>
> --Regards
> Ashishkumar S. Yadav